Knockdown cabinet.



E. O. BLOMBERG. KNOGKDOWN CABINET. APPL OATION FILED MAR 30 1908921,582, Patented May 11, 1909. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

E. G. BLOMBERG. I KNOUKDOWN CABINET. APPLIOATION mum MAR. so, 1908.

Patented May 11, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT onmon.

EDWIN O. BLOMBERG, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANKOLANDER, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

KNOGKDOWN CABINET.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN O. BLOMBERG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knockdown Gabinets,of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a cabinet of knockdownconstruction for packing and shipment in compact form.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of myimproved cabinet. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Fig. 3 is a top view ofone of the horizontal divisions with the uprights, back and glass endsin position, and the door in section. Fig. 1- is a top view of thehorizontal base. Fig; 5 is a vertical section through the sections ofthe cabinet showing the rods connecting the sections. Fig. 6 a verticaltransverse section through the cabinet. Fig. 7 is a perspective view ofone of the rear corner posts.

The cabinet shown in the accompanying drawings is made up of a pluralityof intermediate sections, a top, and a base.

The base 1 is supported upon the feet 2, one located at each cornerthereof. The upper face of the base has its end sections provided withgrooves 3 conforming to the contour of the ends as shown at Fig. 1. Thecontour of the intermediate sections 4. and the top 5 is the same asthat of the base, and the top and bottom faces of the intermediatesections, and the bottom face of the top are provided with end groovescorresponding to the end grooves 3 formed in the base.

The intermediate sections 4 and top 5 are held separated a suitabledistance apart by the rear corner posts 6 and the front posts 7. Each ofthe posts are provided with end projections 8 as shown at Fig. 8, and ofa thickness to enter the end grooves 3. The rear corner posts are eachprovided with a vertically extending groove 9 in its edge as shown atFig. 8.

In erecting the cabinet, the rear corner posts 6 are placed in positionat the rear edge of the base by locating one of the projections 8 ofeach end in the grooves 3. The back 10 is placed in grooves in the innerfaces of the rear posts. The front posts 7 are placed in position at theforward ends Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. March 30, 1908.

Patented May 11, 1909.

Serial No. 4%,273.

of the grooves 3 by their projections 8 entering the grooves. Glass ends11 are located in the end grooves 3, and their vertical edges arelocated in the vertical edge grooves 9 of the rear corner posts, and thevertical edge grooves 12 of the front posts as shown at Fig. 3.

An intermediate section t is placed over the posts, back, and glassends, so that the end grooves thereof will receive the projectionsextending from the upper ends of the posts, and also receive the upperedge of the glass ends. Headed rods 13 are passed up through the base,and nuts 14: are turned on the screw-threaded upper ends of the rods.These rods bind the interme diate section to the base, and form a rigidstructure.

The under face of each of the intermediate sections 41 and the underface of the top are provided with grooves 15 and extend transverselythereof. Doors 16 are fitted between the front posts 7, and from theupper corners of the door extend two pins 17 which are located in thetransverse grooves 15.

In opening a door, it is moved on the pins 17, which act as pivots untilthe door is in a horizontal position. It is then moved inward toward theback of the cabinet, the pins supporting the inner edge of the door, andthe remainder of the door supported by the inward extending rests 18extending from the front posts. The lower outer edge 19 of the doordepends below the inner edge of the door for a purpose to furtherappear. The other sections ofthe cabinet are erected in the same manner,and secured together by the rods 20 and nuts 21. The lower edge 19 ofthe second door overlaps the upper edge of the first door therebyconcealing the front edge of the intermediate section.

The front posts 7 have sections 22 which overlap half the thickness ofthe intermediate sections and a like distance over the base and top asshown at Fig. 1.

By this construction of cabinet the whole cabinet can be packed forshipment in a very close compass and is especially advantageous inforeign shipments.

I claim as my invention.

A knockdown cabinet comprising a base, a top, intermediate sections,removable posts,

seated in the upper face of each intermeends, slidable doors andsectional rods con my hand in presence of two subscribing Witneeting1the base, top and intermediate see- I nesses. tions, tie sections of therods connected by screw-threaded couplings, and a coupling i EDVWINBLOMBERG' 1 Witnesses: I A. O. BEHEL,

E. D. E. N. BEHEL.

diate section.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set

